NFP — Medicago truncatula

Summary

MTR_8G078320, symbol NFP, on barrel medic (Medicago truncatula) chromosome 8 encodes a receptor-like kinase of the LysM family, possessing protein tyrosine kinase activity and ATP binding. The NFP protein is localised to the plasma membrane and vacuolar lumen. This gene is associated with a wide range of biological processes, including root hair tip growth and elongation, lateral root development and formation, auxin transport (both acropetal and basipetal), organogenesis, hyphopodium formation, spore germination, and responses to bacterial molecules and stress. It is also linked to the regulation of defence responses to fungi, upregulation of defence to oomycetes, metabolic burst, cell death, glycoprotein anabolism, and ribosome biogenesis. Additionally, NFP has been connected to agronomic traits such as fruit weight, leaf number, and plant height. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to a tyrosine kinase-like enzyme class (EC 2.7.10.-).